Office of Scholarly Communication

Recent Posts

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  Cambridge University Press and the University of California Agree to Open Access Publishing Deal

  
  April 10, 2019
  The University of California and Cambridge University Press have entered into a transformative agreement that will advance the global shift toward an open access future for research. The agreement

• Comment on proposed UC-wide OA policy for dissertations and theses before April 10

  
  March 11, 2019
  A second systemwide review window is open for a draft policy on open access to University of California dissertations and theses. The current review period extends to April 10 and all members of the

• UC terminates subscriptions with world’s largest scientific publisher in push for open access to publicly funded research

  
  February 28, 2019
  This announcement is cross-posted from the University of California Press Room. As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is
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  Transitioning journals to open access: Guidance from and for the field

  
  February 12, 2019
  One key objective of University of California’s Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC) is to coordinate and offer educational resources related to scholarly publishing. On the OSC website, authors

• Academy-owned? Academic-led? Community-led? What’s at stake in the words we use to describe new publishing paradigms

  
  February 7, 2019
  Editor’s note: This blog post is cross-posted from the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) blog and is LPC’s official contribution to Academic Led Publishing Day (ALPD), a global digital